uppo75 wrote:I was just glad that there wasn't a comments section.Could you imagine the dribble produced by the masses

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Seriously insurance companies should run a honey trap to catch out the haters and self confessed road rule breakers and deny them insurance or charge a hefty premium. I believe that in the UK if you lose points due to using a mobile phone whilst driving your insurance premiums skyrocket if you can get insurance at all. I'd like to see that here

A CYCLIST has been awarded more than $380,000 in damages after colliding with a taxi that "veered" in front of him during peak hour on a busy Brisbane inner city road.

Sounds awfully like an implication that the maneuver was trivial, or even a spurious claim by the cyclist. The defendant has admitted full liability for deity's sake.

Eventually. This is from the judgment that find_bruce linked to:

In closing submissions, however, counsel for the defendants quite properly conceded that, in light of the evidence at trial, there was no basis for a finding of contributory negligence against the plaintiff, and I was not asked to make any such finding.

(emphasis added)You've got to wonder why they ever thought they were going to get that argument up if, at the end of the case they had to admit they had nothing to support it.

As for the tone of the article, well, years of reading the Courier-Mail and then wondering why I bother has lowered my expectations. Also, that was the exact word used in paragraph 1 of the judgment, so the journo may well have just repeated the description without any particular intent.

The wording of the article is absolutely pathetic. The newspapers are losing money hand over fist because there is simply better, less biased reporting out there. The fact that the editor saw fit to let the toilet clog up and wipe it on the final draft says a lot.

A better biased story would have been "finally a deadbeat taxi driver gets pinged, but insurance premiums skyrocket as a result... maybe we need to have more serious consideration about the people we let drive cars?"

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